Eleanor Holmes Norton

It was the meeting that everybody and nobody saw coming all at the same time. In a wood paneled room last week at Rayburn House Office Building, in D.C., in a space designated for Committee on Oversight and Reform, D.C. representative to…

U.S. House leadership has endorsed statehood for the District of Columbia, including in the first bill filed in the new Congress language that would provide D.C. with two senators and a representative, all with full voting rights.

The 115th Congress has officially been sworn in, and so far, the bill with the most co-sponsors is H.R. 51—the bill that would grant D.C. statehood. (D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton says she specifically reserved that number, because…

If you are missing a holiday card or package that you were expecting in the District, you are likely not alone.

Statehood for the District is likely to remain out of reach as long as Republicans hold the majority in the Senate, despite Democratic control of the House in the new Congress.

The U.S. Post Office’s unofficial motto says that “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” but Washingtonians in all four of the city’s quadrants say that…

D.C. Council Member David Grosso (I-At Large) on Wednesday urged Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), the city’s nonvoting congresswoman, to do all she could to block what he called a “backdoor attempt” to pave the way for the Washington Redskins to…

Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder is getting help from District officials, congressional Republicans and the Trump administration as he tries to clear a major roadblock to building a new, 60,000-seat stadium on the site of RFK…

At the start of the 115th Congress, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton formally asked the speaker of the House for the ability to vote on amendments and procedural issues.